Perioperative management of patients with severe pulmonary hypertension in major orthopedic surgery: experience-based recommendations.

ABSTRACT: It is known that pulmonary hypertension is associated with worse outcome in both cardiac and non-cardiac surgery. The aims of our retrospective analysis were to evaluate the outcomes of our patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing major orthopedic surgery and to give experience-based recommendations for the perioperative management.From 92 patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing different kinds of surgical procedures from 2011-2014 in a tertiary academic hospital we evaluated 16 patients with major orthopedic surgery for perioperative morbidity and mortality.Regarding the in-hospital morbidity and mortality, one patient died postoperatively due to pulmonary infection and right heart failure (6.25%) and 6 patients suffered significant postoperative complications (37.5%; bleeding = 1, infection = 1, wound healing deficits = 3; dysrhythmia = 1).Our data show that major orthopedic surgery is feasible with satisfactory outcome even in cases of severe pulmonary hypertension by an individualized, disease-adapted interdisciplinary treatment concept.

SUBMITTER: Seyfarth HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4604756 | biostudies-other | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other